Gearbox’s new content material replace for Borderlands 4 is moving into the vacation spirit by releasing Bounty Pack 1 free of charge. The primary Bounty Pack, How Rush Saved Mercenary Day, is now accessible on consoles and PC. Because the title implies, that is Borderlands’ model of a Christmas story as filtered via the lens of the sport.
The DLC permits gamers to staff up with the chief of the Outbounders, Rush, for some vacation cheer by giving “the miserly Minister Screw” a proverbial kick within the butt. The DLC comes alongside new gear and cosmetics, in addition to some recent missions. Gearbox additionally defined why this replace was launched free of charge.
“As a holiday-themed Bounty Pack, it was essential that gamers obtain it by the top of the 12 months,” wrote a Gearbox rep. “Nonetheless, with the continued efforts to enhance the Borderlands 4 expertise, the staff ran out of time to stuff as a lot mayhem-fueled content material into the Bounty Pack 1 stocking as initially deliberate.”
The remaining Bounty Packs are nonetheless bundled collectively as paid DLC, though they’re additionally included within the recreation’s Deluxe Version, Tremendous Deluxe Version, and Bounty Pack Bundle house owners. Gearbox can be including a fifth Bounty Pack to the bundle, however particulars about what’s coming with the longer term Bounty Packs have not been launched. Everybody who bought the Bounty Pack Bundle or the beforehand listed editions of the sport will obtain the fifth Bounty Pack at no further value.
In the midst of December, Gearbox will add one other free replace that drops Bloomreaper the Invincible into an area for a face-off towards gamers within the first of collection of “invincible boss” fights that should problem the gamers. Every boss chosen for the invincible boss struggle will get a lift in well being, deadly assault harm, and a brand new set of modifiers that make them even deadlier than earlier than. Gamers who emerge victorious can earn new Legendaries.
Borderlands 4 will obtain a brand new story pack in Q1 2026 referred to as Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned, which can introduce a brand new Vault Hunter named C4SH. Gearbox will even debut a free replace that provides Takedown mode to the sport in 2026.
Throughout a current funding name hosted by Gearbox’s guardian firm, Take-Two Interactive, it was disclosed that Borderlands 4 did not reside as much as gross sales expectations despite the fact that it had the most important launch in franchise historical past and a debut as one among 2025’s best-selling video games.